Artist StatementIn this latest project, I harvest images from the internet of modern painting for all the best bits. The most useful fragments become low-res print outs -- then the real work begins. These image fragments are rough and retain only the most graphic visual information about the original; but that's OK. Cobbled together with selections from my personal painting history, I construct a restless Frankenstein's monster. The work is slippery; try as I may, I can't be wholly faithful to the original. Imperfections compound. Attempts at faithfulness fail, and from these failures uneasy paintings emerge, referencing the familiarity of the original while replacing it with sensibilities, biases, and quirks that are distinctly my own.